We have an almost identical topic about this, please discuss there: Closed

I don't know. Mostly just guessing.

It would be nice to have multiple skins, but on the other hand I totally understand why they'd abandon the idea. besides, in the end everyone ends up with the Mk7 skin anyway, or uses a special (XT/Prime/etc) skin instead. Having 4 default skins made sense when they didn't require so much effort to make, and when devs had time and resources to spare.

Good question. I can only speculate in that regard, but it's possible that Ares won't have separate skins for each modification.

The two skins currently added (standard and XT) are both technically of the Ultra type - moving parts, more details, more polygons. I assume all new turrets and hulls will have such skins by default in the future, and I assume that eventually the old skins will be removed completely, or upgraded to Ultra free of charge (though this is unlikely). However, this does mean that the skin requires 10x more effort to design since it's now a detailed 3D model, rather than a basic one with flat faces and no more than 20 polygons. For this reason, devs decided to start by releasing just one default high quality skin for all modifications, rather than trying to make 4 in the same time.

If you're posting images, make sure they are relevant to the topic you are posting them in. If you just want to share a random battle result, it's not appropriate to post it in the Ares thread and say "I saw many Ares players in that battle" — that's not enough. If you're posting large images, it's better to put them in a spoiler or reduce their size so that they don't take up too much space on the screen for other players. And I'm not sure what the deal is with the big green text you posted a couple times as an image. It was unnecessary because you could just type the same text normally. Posting it like that is considered spam and may be removed.

You should try it with mouse. It feels really natural and I'd say it actually becomes more agile than the other heavy hulls. I use mouse with Ares and really like it, despite pretty much never using mouse controls before. The only annoying thing is that using WASD makes it harder to use supplies.

They said a while ago that the controls have been changed. You can now turn the turret either with mouse using mouse controls, or with keyboard like a normal tank, but only if you disable mouse controls in settings. If you have mouse controls enabled and try to use keyboard only, you will not be able to turn the turret.

I love its overdrive. I think it's really interesting, and quite possibly OP. You just have to know when to use it. Make sure you're level and stationary, and fire at a group of teammates/enemies while also making sure it covers the greatest distance on the map. That way you have a chance to get some random kills down the line, which I did multiple times yesterday. One of the most powerful strategies is using the OD as a mobile healing station when attacking or escaping the enemy base. The best example I could think of is Parma or Desert RGB — take the ball, aim at the other end of the map, fire the OD and just drive in a straight line, keeping up with your own OD ball (Ares Mk8 with speed boost has more than enough speed to do that). With 500 hp/tick constant healing, the only way you can die is if you get one-shot. So you just drive along, killing everyone in your way, and easily score a goal. The explosion self-damage is fine — it forces you to be more aware of the ball's position, and more careful about where you use the OD. In fact, I think it should even get a nerf where the ball has limited damage/healing potential and/or doesn't heal the Ares that activated it. If you think about it, Ares OD (BFG) is similar to Mammoth (AT-field) in its mechanics: Both of them heal you Both of them are a close range high damage attack Both are mobile Both have similar charging rates (I think) But BFG provides constant, unlimited healing (like the old repair kit on steroids), whereas AT-field is a one-time full heal BFG can heal an unlimited amount of other teammates BFG is a ranged weapon, whereas AT-field requires the player to put themselves in a dangerous position in order to get kills BFG makes a massive explosion upon impact with a prop BFG can last much longer than AT-field, possibly over a minute on long maps The only advantages of AT-field over BFG is that it gives the player a speed boost and the player can change direction while using it. IMHO it definitely deserves a nerf, but it will likely stay as it is if the hull doesn't get popular due to its unique controls. By the way, BFG also gets a massive advantage from the bug (or feature?) where you keep some OD charge if you die right after activating it. I've had multiple instances where I fire the BFG moments before I get killed, and end up with over 80% charge remaining, ready to fire another one 30 seconds later. Same thing can be done with Wasp, though I noticed it's much harder, and Wasp bomb isn't all that useful compared to BFG.

Spent some time playing around with Ares:

Both issues you described are completely valid, and we already informed developers about them in previous reports. Nonetheless, I'll forward your topic to them as well. Hopefully those will get fixed, because the slow response of UI and some of the layout issues get really annoying, especially for someone who just came from Flash.

Well that was a fun event. Completed all the special missions (took over 10 hours), got my 15 ULTRA containers! Here's the rewards ?

After over 10 hours of grinding, and effectively wasting away 100 gold supplies I spent a year saving up, here's the rewards I got from my 15 ultra containers: Totally worth it.

I have no idea why this contest exists. Us real tankers never leave the comfort of our homes!

Pepperidge farm remembers

It got a buff, then two nerfs. Remember how the very first iteration gave like 400% bonus armour but only for 5 seconds? No one used that and preferred Booster instead, for obvious reasons. But then it was changed to like 200% for 20 seconds, then reduced to 15 seconds, and recently bumped to 30 seconds with a nerf to defence.

Not sure. Maybe the status effect icon disappeared too early.

I legit only just found out that topic exists because no one told me about it ? Added today along with a couple other things. We'll post a topic in Forum Updates about it soon.

Found a folder with pics from the BBQ event which I never shared:

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If you were to receive a massive amount of items which you clearly didn't earn, the correct thing to do it to report the issue. Otherwise, you actually risk facing punishment for hiding the fact that you received items that don't "belong" to you. I'm not sure how much this is enforced in Tanki, since it's the administrators' responsibility to issue correct amounts of prizes to players and therefore making such a mistake (which happens extremely rarely, mind you) would result in consequences for the administrator at fault. However, it's possible that the player may also face some penalties for non-disclosure. This also applies to real life. For example, if you were to receive some valuable items in the mail, with the details clearly stating that it was delivered by mistake and not meant for you, you can be heavily fined or even imprisoned for holding onto those items and not reporting the error to the authorities. On the other hand, if you act in good will and return the items, there's a chance you may be rewarded for your honesty. Either way it is the right thing to do.

I just confirmed — this was an unintentional feature and a recent hot-fix update removed this ability. Developers cannot guarantee stable performance of undocumented features, so if a feature is not listed in any official description of the item, then it shouldn't exist.

Interesting. To me the TO mobile version is basically unplayable. Just goes to show that everyone has very different tastes.

Same. Very rarely I get an actual error screen with a button I can click to reload the client. The vast majority of crashes are just "grey screen of death", where nothing is responding and you have to close the game and reopen it to fix.